Onomatopoeias of Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry in the Aspect of Artistic Synthesis (original) (raw)

2020, International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology

The associative conceits, evoked by a concrete image in an author, a reader, or a speaker of a free-verse lyrical work, often get divergent, bearing a resemblance to the complicated system of concentric circles. However, they would converge on the certain level of perception, owing to the fact that the coincidences of associative fields are able to reveal the archetypal content of initial images. Establishment and development of the problematic circle in Ukrainian free verses of the 20 th-the beginning of the 21 st century can be described by combinations of urban and rural elements, setting up and solving the existential binary oppositions, reflections over the national renaissance of the homeland, and personification of nature. This was what has conditioned the openness of free verse form to artistic synthesis. There is impossible not to notice the echo of impressionistic arts in the up-to-date interpretations of landscape lyrics in freeverse works of the period analyzed (written by M. Semenko, V. Polischuk, R. Kudlyk, and I. Andrusiak). Particularly, it is expedient to talk about the combination of painting (showing an object under various angles and lighting), poetry (operating with a large array of tropes and figures to fix the impression and to suggest it to a reader), and music. Therefore, the artistic imagery of a poetic work synthesizes the visual and audible component in its intonation dimension. This will significantly enlarge the volume of esthetic information, together with the speaker's emotional attitude which is able to suggest an image expressed in a poem to a reader. To reach the proper acoustic effect, poets use the ideophones (or onomatopoeias) and puns connected with them to create either overt or latent metaphors, constructing the image of a sounding thing or entity. Sometimes onomatopoeias get substantiated in poetry, taking even the role of subjects or predicates. This can not only create the audible artistic conceit, but also give it a sense-making function. This way the poet can concentrate any audible element to 'a point within an idiom,' activating the imagination and artistic thinking of a poem's addressee.